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Show THE BULLETIN Chemists Find Fifteen Usea Pride of the Garden, for Shells From Walnuts Lovely Applique Quilt Industrial use for walnut abells a final step In eliminating waste has hcen found. California Walnut Growers association chemists said ths most important of 15 uses found for ground walnut shells are In hard and oft rublier compounds, nsphaltum linoleums, roofing paper, filler la dynamite, and abrasive mechanics soaps. By ELMO SCOTT WATSON RECENTLY press the news that John D. Rockefeller, Jr., who has already spent for the restoration of Williamsburg, Va., to its original appearance as a Colonial American town, had made another magnificent contribution toward its becoming a living museum of the glamorous past. .This time it was not a gift of money. Instead it was something more priceless he had presented to Colonial Williamsburg, Inc., one of the organizations directing the restoration, $14,-000,0- 00 a collection of 10,434 manuscripts, comprising one of the largest and most important sources of colonial military history, the like of which could not be duplicated anywhere in the world. Thia collection, known aa the Brit-laHeadquarters Papers, came to llr. Rockefellers attention nearly six years ago after It had been bought In England by Dr. A. 8. W. Roaenbach, the famoua collector. At that time the reatoration of the Colonial capital of Virginia waa In lta early stages, and Mr. Rockefellers purchase of the collection wna made with this work In mind. It will augment the historical resources h of the restoration and will also mark a further step In the plan to make Williamsburg a center anJ repository of Colonial American historical records, works of art and other collections Identlflcd with this period. The collection comprises the records of the British headquarters during the entire Revolutionary war. The earlier years of this period are represented by official copies of documents of Gen. Thomas Gage, Sir William Ilowe and Sir Henry Clinton, successively communders In chief. The body of orlglnnl papers falls In the years from 1779 to the evacuation of New York In November, 1783. There are a great many mil- -' Itary reports of Gen. George Washington written by his aides and signed by him In regard to exchange of prisonere and other matters, Including the capture of MaJ, John Andre as a British spy.- The War Ends! George Washington's letter of April 21, 1783, addressed to Governor Clinton, a mlstuke for Sir Guy Cnrleton, one of the British commanders, notes the cessation of rum ms Nicholson Street hostilities and provided for the release of prisoners. The letter is noteworthy for Its courtesy of expression. An excerpt follows: Respecting the other subjects contained in the Inclosed resolution of Congress, ss they may be discussed with more precision and dispatch by a personal conference than by writing, 1 have to propose a personal Interview between Your Excellency and myself at some convenient time and Intermediate place auch as may be agreed upon by I would only Your Excellency. auggest that In point of time the earliest date that Your Ex ... FERRYS e quilt. young and old, will find It fun to do, making the tulip flowers aa varied aa the scraps on hand, but keeping leaves and First, 1 like lots of flowers and sterna uniform. A very Inexpensive with Ferry's seed I can grow quilt to make. It's one you can afford plenty at little cost. very to give a bride-to-bThe tulips can I Then know what Jrttbntu means to also be used on scarfs and pillows to This drawing, made from an ancient French map, ahowa how the city of Williamaburg will look when the germination and that purebred quality bedroom make linens match. yonr reatoration la complete. Pattern 1118 cornea to you with means I get what I plant And its so convenient; so interesting; complete, simple Instruction for cutarIn bowl name tion resulted of will be moat the house of ry Wetberburn's biggest cellency could ting, sewing and finishing, together so satisfactory to make my selection at rack punch. agreeable to me." . . . being officially dissolved. Then the legislators wont down Raleigh tavern was twice used as with yardage rhart, diagram of quilt the colorful Ferry Seed Duplays. an assembly place for the house of to help arrange the blocks for single the street to the Apollo room In The restoration of colonial Wilthe Raleigh tavern. burgesses, when the royal governor and doable bed else, and a diagram liamsburg might well be called a Choose fresh of block which serves as a guide for dissolved the assembly for discussromance of Idealism In an era of Besides the eapltol and the colplacing the patches and suggests con- PUREBRED SEEDS d ing disloyal petitions and resolucommercially-mindematerialism. lege, the most Important building In tions, including the decision to set trasting materials. Back of It la the story of the vision Colonial tlmea was the governors Send 15 cents In coins or stamps aside a day for fasting and prayer at your nearly of two men a minister and a palace which stood at the head of In 1774 when news of the blockade (coins preferred) to The Sewing Cirthe Palace Green, a broad avenue philanthropist. The minister la Rev. 'Dealers of Boston harbor was received. Thia cle, Needlecraft Dept. 82 Eighth William A. R. Goodwin, rector of running north from Duke to Gloucestavern is also credited with being Ave New York, N. Y. ter street It was begun In 1705 the Bruton Parish church In Wilthe birthplace of Phi Beta Kappa, and completed during the governorliamsburg, who originated the Idea FERRy-yiORS- Ei n the first chapter of the more than thirty years ago. The ship of Col. Alexander Spotswood, Farm Is Bachelor's Ilaven estab-llslier acholnstlc fraternity being founder of the romantic Order of philanthropist Is John D. Rockein Leap Year Excitement there on December 5, 177. About 1751 the Golden Horseshoe. feller, Jr., whose response to the Turn it was reconstructed on a more spaplowlioy for the sen son and challenge that a land without a Plan Yorktown Campaign on the farm was siNo roa cious scale. Tills was during the leap spend oasdin The fine Colonial brick home of Prof. E. T. year Hiller's advice to bachC Flower GudaM, Old FufueatSaaJ New: governorship of Robert Dinwiddle on east of side the O How 10 Hive a Beautiful Un George Wythe elors who want to atay that way durthe Dinwiddle who sent a certain the palace green, beside the Bruton nr.mini rtn Hmifinw Ynnr Yrgmihk fiaiAo 1930. The leap year chase Is young MaJ. George Washington on ing as It remains parish churchyard, the mission to the French on the most strenuous In the city, the Illistood when Washington and LafaMi If M Mta.ki nois university sociologist said, beOhio river which led to his taking yette together planned the battle of cause there are a couple of unmarried IMPROVING part In the Bradduck tragedy and 80YEAI& fOR SKtft women for every male. the Fort Necessity adventure. The next occupant of the palace ALL ON DIET after Dinwiddle was Francis FauTraveling Fait Thomas when whom a of "You were at Jefferson, disadvantage quier then a young student at the college, you met that bear without your gun, waa a prime favorite, not only with suggested the sweet thing. the governor but with the brlles of "Yes; conceded the famoua huntAnother er. I waa a stranger In the counWilliamsburg as welL participant In the gay social festry and I had left my road maps tivities at the palace was George back in camp. Toronto Globe. Washington, who took his bride, Martha Dandrldge Custls, on a honeymoon trip to Wllllnmsburg. Washington also dined there with "Your landlady cuta things a trifle Lord Dunmore, the last British govabort, doesn't she?" ernor of Virginia, before the break MARTHA CUSTIS "Somewhat. About twice what she came between the colonies and the serves would be a half portion. mother country. When that break Yorktown there: It was built In came "My Lord Dunmore" collected 1755 and lta owner twenty years In Cheering Section his men, went to the Powder Horn later, George Wythe, was a signer Liisen I had a most enjoyable (built by Colonel Spotswood In the of the Declaration of Independence. memory Is a land without a hope time at the dentist's this afternoon. Market square and still standing), Bassett hall, one of the finest anwaa to offer the money for the restook the colony's supply of powder Hurja I don't aee bow you could. cient buildings In the town, stands toration and to give Doctor Goodand muskets and silently stole on Llasen It's true. When I went at the end of a long lane of trees. win a free hand In bringing It about In another dentist was working on board ship under cover of night It waa the property of Burwell BasAa a result, over an area of somemy dentists teeth. Pathfinder Whereupon a certain Patrick Henry sett, whose uncle, George WashingHanfrom militia a thing like a mile square, all that led party of ton, was frequently a visitor. The Is new has been, or la being, reover, King William, New Kent and of Martha Washmoved and all that Is old put back Charles City counties to demand In buried Is the Bruton parington aa nearly as possible as It was more the arms back again. He didn't get iah churchyard. In 1811 Vice Presthan a century and a half ago. from did the but lie force them, ident John Tyler was living at BasMore than 440 modern buildings governor a payment of 320 pounds sett hull when the son of Secretary have been raxed, C7 old ones refor the munitions, which he took of State Daniel Webster galloped stored and 87 rebuilt on old foundawith him to Philadelphia later and down the long lane of trees to bring tions deposited In the treasury of the news of the death of William him And n Is after Continental congress. Although Williamsburg small Harrison and of hla succesHenry Dunmore hail finally fled the colony city (Its population probably never sion to the Presidency. exceeded the present figure of some It was Patrick Henry who occupied Ths home of Col. Wilson Miles 2,000), It is doubtful If there Is any the pnlace ns governor. other town In America with which Cary, a delegate to tho Virginia "Hair Buyer" a Prisoner convention in 1776, was frequentthere have been associated so many To him In 1778 euine another ly visited by Washington when ho historic names. Its streets have was studying surveying at Wilknown such notable ns Washingyoung Virginian, George Rogers liam and Mary college, a short Clark, to lay before him his daring ton, Jefferson, Monroe, John Marrewalk the vast scheme for away. It is said that the conquering shall, Patrick Henry, Benjamin parents of Mary Cary discouraged gion of the Old Northwest History Franklin, George Rogers Clarlu the inconspicuous engineer's woohas recorded how well Clark sucHochainbeau, Lafayette, George Maceeded but it Is not so well known ing of their daughter, and that son, George Wythe, the Ilnndolplis. that his vanquished enemy. Gov. Mary fainted on the porch of this the and a host of others whose house some years later when she Henry Hamilton, the "Hair Buyer names are a part of our Colonial waa the wife of Edward Ambler General of Pel roll." after the surand Revolutionary war history. and General Washington rode The site of Williamsburg was past on hlo triumphal return as known the Middle originally from hia victory over Cornwallis Plantations. In 1G32 Sir Francis at Yorktown. Mary's slater wae Nicholson, at various times govthe wife of Lord Fairfax. ernor of Virginia, Maryland and Resides the wealth of Colonial Acadia, laid out a town there and residences, Williamsburg still posnamed It In honor of King William. sesses ninny other old public buildHis first Intention was to honor his ings. In William rind Mary college out the streets sovereign by laying stand three excellent examples. In the form of a monogram of W The hall, designed by Sir Christoand M, h'lt two ravines Interfered pher Wren. Is the oldest college with Ills put710.se. So the town whs imilding In America, antedating built ulong main street which he Massachusetts hall at Harvard. The named Duke of Gloucester street, Wren Imilding was ravaged three honoring the short-liveprince. Mine by fire hut its thick walls reson. Two parQueen Anne's eldest mained. Its architectural design Is allel streets he named Francis and GEORGE WASHINGTON as It was originally. almost Nicholson, honoring himself! Cross In this bulllling George Washingwas to sent render at Vincennes, streets were named Nassau, King. ton studied and received his certifiWilliamsburg ns a prisoner of war Pulace and Queen street, and the cate ns a surveyor, and It also and wns confined la the old Jail bounded by these parallelogram boused three other Presidents, Jefthere which still stands, having streets marks the arcs of the presferson, Monroe and Tyler, and the more a for Its as done prison doty ent restoration. great first chief Justice of the than 200 years. United States, John Marshall, In A Famoua Architect In this prison, too, had been their student days In 1993 there was built at the confined come of the acBociatee The foundations of the first theawest end of Duke of Gloucester of the notorioue pirate, Black In America, built In 1710, are ter street the College of William and Beard, who were executed In 1718. used again for erecting a new being were theeo Mary which was chartered by the Incidentally pirates as a replica of the orlglnnl. building of Joint sovereigns contributors England after (unwillingly probThe theater contributed to the whom It wns named. At that time a cause of learnto tho higher ably) gnlcty and fashlonahle life for building designed by the famous ing, for on tho account books of which Williamsburg was known Sir Christopher Wren wns already tho College of William and Mary when It wns the Old Dominion was Bruton as the 300 Parish standing, stands the fact that pounds Itnl. church. In 1R0SI the government of tho original oubicriptlona for At the other end of the Duke of of the colony of Virginia wns moved are tho credited college founding Gloucester street, facing the college from Jamestown to Williamsburg to "certain pirates. a mile away, stands the orlgnearly and the day of Williamsburg's glory One of the famous building ol lnnl little office of the rlerk of the began. Williamsburg, which alreudy has house of burgesses. In which the At the other end of Duka of been restored. Is Die Raleigh tavern. momentous legislative acts of the Gloucester otreet was erected the The "ordinary" In this tavern was period were enprerevolutionary first building In the United States operated In Colonial limes by Henry was a familiar working It grossed. It officially designated "Capitol. Wetherlnirn, whose wares were so place for ninny of the orators and waa the seat of the council and the favorably known that William Ranstatesmen whose names are forever 1701 dolph sold 200 acres of land to burgesses of the colony from linked with American independence. until the opening of the Revolu Thomas Jefferson's father for "Hen 6 We Urn Xtwaptpe Cnlom. Qullt-maker- a, SEED vegc-ublcsa- nd e. bur-goos- well-know- ran great-grandfath- er - d Elm-Arch- J. Twill be the "Pride of the Garden," and also the pride of whatever bedroom It adorna this lovely -- hilfs |